it is official

I have winterised the boat (well sort of) and brought two large bags of bedding etc home for washing.  I hope I haven't been too hasty as although we now have oil in the tank at home it still hasn't been connected up and deemed safe for the big switch on.

See y'all in February.

Ways to go home

It is possible to cycle home on an electric bike.

But don't do it again without someone on standby to collect you when the battery dies!

I set off at 11.15 with the bike on eco which means I do 75% of the work and it is not terribly fast but you don't notice any hills which is good as it is uphill pretty much all the way home.  It died at 3pm about 7 miles from home and just before the one section of busy main road with no pavement.  Typical.

At 4.45pm I reached The watersports centre about 3 miles from home absolutely shattered as cycling an electric bike after the battery has died is like cycling through thick treacle.  And the hills oh god the hills!

I managed to collar a poor unsuspecting farmer with a landrover to carry me and bike the last 3 miles home. What a gent.  So I was home by 5pm and straight into a hot bath.

I am IN

woo hoo what a relief it was flat calm this morning so I slipped into my winter mooring at Barton Turns with barely a ripple.  And most importantly no half term gongoozlers at that time of the morning.

I thought I had misjudged the turn to reverse into the slot but in the end it worked out brilliantly.  Anyone watching would have assumed I had intended to do it that way, even though I was actually muttering oh dear oh dear (or words to that effect) as I reversed back towards my slot because as soon as my stern reached the opening the bows had sweetly carried on turning so I was then straight back in - how lucky was that?

So the mug tug can breathe a sigh of relief I didn't smash all the crockery after all!

THAT'S ALL FOLKS !